Social Determinants of Health in Ohio

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Contents of AHRQ SDOH Database

The Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) database from AHRQ compiles SDOH-related variables across multiple domains from 87 sources including multiple federal and other data sources. The downloadable files contain a total of 675 variables available by year from 2009 through 2020. Data is available across three geography levels: all 675 variables are available by county level, 319 are available by ZIP code, and 321 variables are available by census tract.

These variables are organized into five main categories containing several topics each: social context (demographics, disability, immigration, living conditions), economic context (employment, income, poverty), education (attainment), physical infrastructure (environment, housing, internet, migration, transportation), and healthcare context (characteristics of facilities, characteristics of providers, distance to provider, health insurance status, health outcomes, health care quality, utilization and costs).

Figure 1: Ohio’s Appalachian and Non-Appalachian Counties

Figure 2: Athens County Zip Codes

Figure 3: Athens County Census Tracts

Median Household Income by County

Median Household Income by Zip Code

Median Household Income by Census Tract

SDOH Variables Available at the Census Tract Level

Variable Name Description
ACS_PCT_CHILD_DISAB Percentage of children with a disability (ages 17 and below)
ACS_PCT_DISABLE Percentage of population with a disability
ACS_PCT_HH_NO_INTERNET ACS_PCT_HH_NO_INTERNET
ACS_PCT_HH_NO_COMP_DEV ACS_PCT_HH_NO_COMP_DEV
ACS_PCT_EMPLOYED Percentage of civilian labor force that is employed (ages 16 and over)
ACS_PCT_NOT_LABOR Percentage of population not in labor force (ages 16 and over)
ACS_MEDIAN_HH_INC Median household income (dollars, inflation-adjusted to data file year)
ACS_PCT_NONVET_POV_18_64 Percentage of civilian nonveterans with income below the poverty level in the past 12 months (between ages 18 and 64)
ACS_PCT_PERSON_INC_BELOW99 Percentage of population with an income to poverty ratio under 1.00
ACS_PCT_INC50 Percentage of population with income to poverty ratio under 0.50
ACS_PCT_LT_HS Percentage of population with less than high school education (ages 25 and over)
ACS_PCT_HU_MOBILE_HOME Percentage of housing units that are mobile homes
ACS_PCT_OWNER_HU_COST_50PCT Percentage of owner-occupied housing units with rent equal to 50 percent or more of household income
ACS_PCT_RENTER_HU_COST_50PCT Percentage of renter-occupied housing units with rent equal to 50 percent or more of household income
ACS_PCT_WORK_NO_CAR Percentage of workers in households with no vehicle available (ages 16 and over)
ACS_PCT_UNINSURED_BELOW64 Percentage of population with no health insurance (ages 64 and below)
POS_DIST_CLINIC_TRACT Distance in miles to the nearest health clinic (FQHC, RHC), calculated using population weighted tract centroids

No chronic health data available

PLACES Data

CHR Data

Percent of Adults with Diabetes

Percent of Adults with Diabetes